History
In 1943 in the Solomon Islands, John F. Kennedy's PT-109 was rammed and sunk. Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who found Kennedy and the survivors remember that when they rode on PT boats to retrieve the survivors, the Marines sang this song with the natives, who had learned it from Seventh-day Adventist missionaries.
This hymn was titled "China" in some hymnals of the 19th century, and was the inspiration for the name of the town of China, Maine.
The song's first stanza can be occasionally heard in the survival horror first-person shooter, BioShock. When the main character is walking around a splicer that has not yet seen the player, they sometimes sing the first stanza of the song, along with phrases that imply their faith.
An eerie, heavily distorted recording of the first stanza and the chorus is played over the credits of the Bible-inspired roguelike computer game The Binding of Isaac, after the full game has been completed ten times.
On February 9, 2012, Whitney Houston and Kelly Price sang the song together. It was Houston's final performance before she died two days later in the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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